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Climate: Past, Present, And Future, Saxon E. Sharpe, Rick Forester, Amy J. Smiecinski
Climate: Past, Present, And Future, Saxon E. Sharpe, Rick Forester, Amy J. Smiecinski
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Climatology and meteorology studies in the Yucca Mountain area have resulted in the following key observations and conclusions: • The present-day arid climate of the Yucca Mountain area can be understood in terms of global-scale atmospheric circulation and regional to-local physiographic features. In general terms, the area is under the influence of mid-latitude westerly winds and associated storm systems during the cool part of the year and and is under the influence of moist air advected from the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and Gulf of California during the summer. Temperature and precipitation data from Nevada regions 3 and 4 (southern …